Applying intelligent agents and semantic web services in eGovernment environments |
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Authors: | Francisco García‐Sánchez Luís Álvarez Sabucedo Rodrigo Martínez‐Béjar Luís Anido Rifón Rafael Valencia‐García Juan Miguel Gómez |
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Affiliation: | 1. Departamento de Informática y Sistemas, Facultad de Informática, Universidad de Murcia, , 30100 Espinardo (Murcia), Spain;2. Departamento de Ingeniería Telemática, Escuela Técnica Superior Ingenieros Telecomunicación, Universidade de Vigo, , 36310 Vigo, Spain;3. Departamento de Ingeniería de la Información y las Comunicaciones, Facultad de Informática, Universidad de Murcia, , 30100 Espinardo (Murcia), Spain;4. Departamento de Informática, Escuela Politécnica Superior, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, , 28911 Leganés (Madrid), Spain |
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Abstract: | The increasing volume of eGovernment‐related services is demanding new approaches for service integration and interoperability in this domain. Semantic web (SW) technologies and applications can leverage the potential of eGovernment service integration and discovery, thus tackling the problems of semantic heterogeneity characterizing eGovernment information sources and the different levels of interoperability. eGovernment services will therefore be semantically described in the foreseeable future. In an environment with semantically annotated services, software agents are essential as the entities responsible for exploiting the semantic content in order to automate some tasks, and so enhance the user's experience. In this paper, we present a framework that provides a seamless integration of semantic web services and intelligent agents technologies by making use of ontologies to facilitate their interoperation. The proposed framework can assist in the development of powerful and flexible distributed systems in complex, dynamic, heterogeneous, unpredictable and open environments. Our approach is backed up by a proof‐of‐concept implementation, where the breakthrough of integrating disparate eGovernment services has been tested. |
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Keywords: | ontologies multi‐agent systems semantic web services eGovernment |
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